Operation Return to Sender in Richmond, CA

Richmond mayor Gayle McLaughlin offered support to nearly 1,000 residents who gathered Sunday afternoon to talk about an immigration sweep this month in which more than 100 undocumented immigrants were arrested in Contra Costa County.

“As the mayor, I’m here to give solidarity and support to families who in recent weeks have lived in a state of terror. I don’t want our residents to live under terror,” McLaughlin told the mainly Latino group in the gymnasium of St. Mark’s Catholic Church in Richmond.

She said people are forced to migrate for survival, and that she intends to push forward a resolution to oppose the federal raids.

In “Operation Return To Sender,” federal officials arrested 119 people in Contra Costa and deported 16 of them as of last week, according to Timothy Aitken, deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco. Some of the arrests were in Richmond. Click here.

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